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Iain Pears - Author

Iain Pears was born in 1955, educated at Wadham College, Oxford and won the Getty Scholarship to Yale University. He has worked as a journalist, an art historian and a television consultant. He is the author of many books, including the bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost and The Dream Of Scipio.

Featured Books, with extracts, by Iain Pears

ArcadiaIain Pears
In the basement of a professor's house in 1960s Oxford,
fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and
instead finds herself in a different world. Anterwold is a
sun-drenched land of storytellers, prophecies and ritual. But is...Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2015

Stone's FallIain PearsFeatured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 25 July
2010.Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott
Prize for historical fiction 2010. A brilliantly plotted
novel tracing back through John Stones’s life in three
distinct segments...Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010

PortraitIain Pears
Coming straight into paperback only, a beautifully produced book
with flaps and coloured pictures of some of the paintings brushed
over in this extraordinary monologue. Powerful, erudite, menacing,
dark, disturbing and strangely gripping, this is a short (224
pages), atmospheric,...Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 07/08/2006